Virtually all human beings have a number of benign cutaneous neoplasms. Many of these
never come to medical attention. Patients who do show such lesions to a physician typically
are concerned about the possibility that their growths may be skin cancer. With proper
training and experience, the physician should be able to triage most such lesions with a
clinical examination. In a medical setting increasingly influenced by managed care and
dominated by cost consciousness, the primary care physician is expected to make these …